Title - Time for a Bath! Author: Mader, Jan Publisher: Kaeden Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre There is no time for a bath until Mom shakes things up a little. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 59 1.0 100 RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 9 Total # of Words 63 # of Different Words 21 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 26 41.3% # of Hi freq words 7 33.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Opening or Closing text varies 1 pattern excl open/close 0 - 1 word changes in a pattern Some phrases/refrains repeated Vocabulary: Easy Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Character traits First Person Topics Mothers *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words